32bit OS on 64Bit Hardware...

Thu Jun 1 11:06:39 UTC 2006

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 06:58 -0400, Frank, Ryan W wrote:
> 
> Linux cltrsklccs01 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:14:12 EST 2006
> i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

ah ha! 

in RHEL3, the "athlon" smp kernel is not PAE enabled, only the "i686"
smp kernel is.... and you're using the athlon kernel afaics.

so what you'd need to do is rpm -e of your existing kernel-smp, and grab
the i686 variant instead of the athlon one and install that...

(so this one extra line has been very useful in diagnosing this :)